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I don't think many (any?) engineers from Google or Facebook would jump to Microsoft for higher pay. If money was the one motivating factor then surely said engineers would be working in finance rather than at Google or Facebook.
I liked it as well, it would be interesting to see the kickstarter 'style' get more common now that Kickstarter has banned it (the pre-order vs not-a-store issue). I see it as a way to gauge customer interest in a sort of viral way.

The dissection was nice as well.
- Research universities aren't generally for-profit organizations and so the simple calculus of profit generated versus salary paid isn't directly applicable.

- Professorship in many disciplines (i.e. liberal arts) is a glamour job, that is one with an effectively bottomless supply of qualified aspirants that do not have easy access to higher-paying alternative jobs.

- "Rainmaker" grant writers pretty much can write their own ticket within academia, but they won't necessarily be able to capture a lot of the grant money as salary. They should still be able to set their own hours while running projects with top-shelf employees and equipment. There's no guarantee that the most interesting, respectable research will be appealing to the types of people who fund research though. (n.b.: I am only guessing on this last point.)
Agreed, but for my case, I didn't really care too much about the PDF output. The printed version of my thesis is going to sit in my university library untouched forever. I'm much more concerned with having a semantically correct, searchable, beautiful HTML output.
Hey there, (wavo CTO here)

It is my understanding that running airbrake in the browser does need you to somehow provide the API key to the client[1].

Could you explain a bit more in detail what makes you worry about having the API key on the client?

[1]http://help.airbrake.io/kb/troubleshooting-2/javascript-noti...
My friend and his team won the Rice Cleanweb Hackathon with this Webapp
Hmmm, yeah you can opt out, just like every other Facebook integration.
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"Your body is full of sphincters."

I'm sorry, but this cracked me up. It brought out my inner Beavis and Butthead. I apologize. But, I mean, come on. Most people do associate the word sphincter with the butthole, and surely the creator should have known that. (Unless the, umm, cheeky association is intentional?)
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Thought experiment for you: what fraction of current salary would it take to get a current Googler to flee the company? Would they still do the work for $30k rather than $150+stock?

No company with with an HR department is going to their average employee over $100k without a business reason.
If the potential co-founders you're speaking to aren't showing interest, more than likely the problem actually lies on your side. As the initial founder, your job first and foremost is as a salesman. You need to sell your idea such that other people are HUNGRY to join.

Money is not the primary motivator here; passion is. Until your potential co-founder feels that passion inside himself to make your idea a reality, he won't join you (or if he does, he'll be more likely to leave once the going gets tough).
"It would be cost prohibitive to reproduce their experiment on a larger scale, he said." - From the parent article this one summarizes.

Drat. Sigh.
I believe the way longest chain is determined is the sum of the difficulty of all the blocks. This basically boils down to just the chain with the most cpu power that went into it. So as long as you control the majority of the cpu power, you can control the longest chain.
Why not to go the other way round in this case? Typeset your thesis in semantically correct, searchable, beautiful HTML5, and then just add some specific CSS to get the hard print copy?
I'm interested in the "white-labeled Kickstarter" style approach. As I recall, app.net did the same thing. Are there services out there that help do this?
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Various people from Opera Software mentioned that their company had plans to do this in case of success and possible monopoly of Chrome OS.
Curtis didn't say that manufacturers with 4.8+ inch screens were wrong. He said manufacturers with 4+ inch screens were wrong. i.e. Apple today

Also the phone screen he was comparing against (S II) was only 0.8 inches larger, at 4.3 inches.
The music distribution system today adds value beyond just getting stuff to my computer - it selects artists, curates content, stores it for me virtually, etc. These functions would all probably find a portion of people willing to pay for them.

I am thinking of Pandoras or Shazams, perhaps with features that let me say "someone make a song like this". One could see the emergence, as a counter-movement, of heavily DRM-protected "limited release" albums.

When you make something people value free strange things happen. The most likely is still the use of force to enforce profits, i.e. some form of copyright regime.
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Most interesting indeed is the Kickstarter approach outside of Kickstarter. Someone should launch a Kickstarter-as-a-Service startup.
wahhh! box-shadow can do that?! Crazy!
It's shit like this that makes me cautious about Facebook for anything these days. An online newspaper I read have pictures of people who have 'like'd their paper on the front page. I notified a few of my friends about this and they were horrified and proceeded to unlike the paper. But the greatest atrocity was committed by Spotify when they put Facebook publishing of songs you listen to on by default. Afaik, they have it off now, but even Spotify goes out of 'private mode' automatically after 5 hours of inactivity. What is the world coming to? I've been a semi-active FB user since 2004 but now I am paranoid about the way their tentacles are infesting every part of the web.
This is a good post. Netflix will just become annoying if it posts on my facebook all the time. Not that I'd let them post on my facebook but yea, another discussion.

Cough Netflix you also need to work on navigation of xbox live with JUST voice commands. I use the Kinect over a controller for a reason - it's faster. But I'd like to be able to read the description of something before I watch it, I'd also enjoy having the option of turning preview play off; it turns on and my Kinect can't hear me!
Nice work wavo crew!
Cool hack. It would be neat if the box-shadows used relative units rather than `px` so that you could resize the result, but then why not use SVG?
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I realize this is the usually cited counter argument. ie that immigrants come and will more or less sponge off the well developed social system. I don't have any statistics and it would be interesting to see some data here. Speaking for myself though, I went for work, earning more money, living in a less corruption ridden society, basically just better living conditions, (not for sponging off the system) and I've been building software and paying into the german system ever since. You're right that their are risks for the host country but I think most young people would not be against "innovative" measure to decrease the host countries risk (ie. not being able to access the social system until x-amount of years paying taxes or whatever). I know I wouldn't have been.
Looks great but these days I rarely design entire sites in graphics programs, I design right in the browser with CSS/HTML.
What do you like? What don't you like?
Agree 10,000x over your 1000x. On the occasions where rapid unexpected (and awesome!) traffic or growth spikes happen you can almost always temporarily patch the situation by scaling vertically (bigger/faster disk/CPU) or quick and dirty horizontally (load balancing or replication) and then have some breathing room to work out the real meaningful or cost effective scaling solution.
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We're seeing more signups, more engagement, and more activity. Not sure how that is a bad thing?

"So you're saying providing details is bad and vagueness is good. Vagueness "incites curiosity" which increases signups."

Not really, we're saying that for certain kinds of free consumer apps, curiosity can be a very strong motivator for someone to try a product. (This kind of tactic would never work for a paid product for instance or a product targeted at business users.)

Vagueness doesn't necessarily incite curiosity, but asking first time users to parse detailed messaging often kills it prematurely, and you've got to find the right balance that optimizes conversion. This is what worked well for us.

Finally, there are many other tactics that we're successfully using to turn the users who just signed up into active, engaged users and they are mentioned elsewhere on this thread.
I'm not sure whether I'm happy to see this or not.

+ I'm glad craigslist has improved their product, but I wish it weren't a straight clone of a feature from another site.
- I wish they weren't so sleazy when dealing with Padmapper
- I wish they weren't so sleazy about their terms & conditions
- Padmapper is an excellent site, and will likely wind up with nothing more than a footnote in internet history
I was thinking of the Illumos fork, and where key developers ended up (Joyent, Nexenta, OmniTI, etc)
I agree all perspectives are a plus - It would be great to have Marc and Rap Genius engaged in the open Annotation effort.
one thing I always wanted to build but probably never will (other things being more important) was to have a company that used 3d printing to make stylish frames for glasses. Why you ask, because it's a pain to find good styles when you have either a big or small head, it's not that good styles don't exist, just that since your not a significant enough market for them to mass produce it your mostly ignored having to settle on ones that just happen to be in your size. Plus you could totally have retro and strange styles and since you don't have inventory stocked the sky's the limit on how many styles you could keep in your inventory.

I just can't focus on this idea since I have other ones to pursue (the ones more akin to my lifes work sort of thing) so feel free to rip me off, maybe if you do you could toss me a pair of frames for free ;)
Amazing job! How long did it take and were there any tools you used to make this faster?
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So is there just an app making these types of things at this point? I'd have to imagine so... And if that's the case it's about as impressive as a generated ASCII art Mona Lisa.
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How are you matching Twitter accounts to voter registration?
As a plain old programmer, would a tool like this be useful to me? How can I use a theorem prover to improve my code, or make it easier to write my code on a day to day basis? I've heard that Z3 is used for demonstrating security properties, how would I apply this to ensure my own systems are secure?
Seems like its only available in the Bay for now.

Can we make this happen for New York?
Question: What if the resident just leaves the door open? Can the system tell if the door has been left open? (The lock will still lock and unlock)
>you want stuff in the sidebar, never be too far away from header/footer, etc.

I hate to be contrary, but no, I really don't want anything in the sidebar, at least when it comes to a piece of text that requires a certain amount of concentration to consume. That's why it's actually easier to read something from, say, the new york review of books in a physical form then it is from the website; there's just too much potential distraction, full stop, while the physical page tends to be more focused, more clean, for whatever reason.

Anyway, I think it's ESR that does the best text/article presentation on the web, for example (http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/homesteading/cathedral-baza...)
Classic power brokers in play. Get the investments from influential people. Build a decent product. They will sell the company for you. No need to have traction. No challenge as well.
I don't think facebook is a very good venue for organizing this, since unconnected people cannot invite themselves into the event.
We have voter rolls (preprocessed) into elastic search. We do search using data available from twitter (name & location, mostly). We can't match all twitter users who are voters, but we have a very low false-positive rate.
I agree. CL should have made a reasonable buyout offer for PadMapper and given ericd a chance to help improve the product. Unfortunately being gentlemanly is neither common nor required in the business world.
I'm feeling a bit kickstarter-ed out. So many small electronics projects.

Good luck, though.
I'd ... ask ... the people.

Using some form of communication.

Of which Quora is but one.
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Here you go :) It's long but insightful, so I recommend watching the whole thing: https://www.facebook.com/FacebookStudio?sk=app_2522064914642...
That's cool, that would gather lots of significant data to build dictionaries, play with hadoop, etc.
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Another thing came to mind: building a proxy server in a SaaS model. Dangerous, but could be u$eful.
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Thanks, that sure is embarrassing. It looked to me like it went on the outside, but I realize now that I was wrong. I still think it would still be nice to have it look sturdier.
Extremely clever!
There's a good reason to require proper page numbers: citations. In general you can't refer to a particular passage in a huge HTML document. Anchor links are a technical solution, but that's not how normal citations work.

I think that more generally when a document becomes sufficiently complex it is better to use a page-oriented, typesetting approach. You'll want to fiddle with where certain page breaks and figures end up, and if you do that you might as well stick with one canonical format.

You can view it as the paper paradigm. Alternatively, you can also see it as sticking to a uniform, canonical format. Getting fluid layouts right is a very difficult problem, and manually getting the layout right for a fixed format is simply a much better solution for this purpose.
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> If you do not care about music enough to seek it out (which is most people)

If most people don't care much about music, why should we as a society spend so much money supporting the music industry?

I view the music industry & pop music as an ephemeral buisness which took advantage of the particular technology & society present in the 20th century, in the same way that some species of animal might evolve to take advantage of some ecological niche that appeared as global climate changes and then dies out once that niche dissapears.
Netflix should build their own social network, for the heck of it. I like having different social networks for the various public spheres I participate in, instead of trying to manage 'one social network' for all of the public spheres I interact in.
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I'm thinking the client people have the edge. If you're running a web site, why pay for a big machine when you can let each client use their own.
One big reason is math, which TeX is very good at.
In the case of a US criminal trial, where nullification usually happens, it is irrelevant as the prosecution can not appeal an acquittal.

But even in the case of a civil trial such as this, the only reason Samsung can argue jury misconduct is because members of the jury themselves have provided evidence by talking to the press. Even then, the barrier to getting a retrial are high.

Nullification as a concept is not protected other than as a byproduct of other concepts, such as the privacy of the jury deliberations, and the strength it gets from the protection against appeals of acquittals in criminal trials.

As such, Samsungs argument has absolutely zero bearing on the concept of jury nullifications - their arguments are based on the letter of the law and mountains of precedents setting the boundaries of exactly the extents to which the jury's decision can be question or set aside.
Um... you have to have the degree before you attempt to enter the US.
I love the whole concept and execution, except I think the tweets should scroll by slightly slower, as sometimes you don't have time to read a tweet before it disappears.
As a non-US guy, this is pretty cool.

It's working really well for live updating.
The HTML format does generate multiple pages for different sections and chapters, completely configurable. The format above is the singlehtml format where everything is on one page. I'd much rather have a link to a specific anchor tag on a page that goes directly to where I want than a citation to a page number on a 200 page document.
You can hack it and turn it into a clock (sorta):

http://hackaday.com/2008/10/14/how-to-make-an-e-paper-clock-...
Mathjax is very good at it too.
This is so cool how can you not like the concept. I even tried "globalthermonuclearwar" but it just wanted to play Tic Tac Toe. :-)
Pardon? Isn't it the other way around? If you're making a joke, I don't get it. Care to explain?
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With all due respect to the fine folks at Opera Software, I think they should have much bigger concerns than the possibility that Chrome OS will ever hold anything close to a monopoly.
Almost certainly. You could probably do this in about twenty lines of PHP, it's just a map of pixels from an image into CSS pseudo-pixels.
Or, implement Mark Cuban's 10 US cents per trade cost idea. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2862003

No more problem. And it could be harder to game than taxing profits after the fact...
They do. Usually it's through a "Like-gate". Sometimes they even require a Facebook App that by default gets them useful info like gender, etc.
My bad. False alarm.
Yeah, it's a tough call. If we slow it down, we'd have to show fewer as the underlying stream is zipping by. We considered pause or pause-on-hover, but sort of assume people will glance at it, not stare at it, if that makes sense. Gestalt, not reading?
Did anyone else's system grind to an utter halt from ad's on that page? (Irony is not lost)
Posted this on HN last time the Rdio discussion came up when Spotify launched in the US, still relevant:

"I'm in Canada and was disappointed that we were cut out of the stateside Spotify launch, so I went looking and heard a number of recommendations for Rdio. Out of 18,384 tracks it matched 3,142. Considering my tastes are pretty mainstream and my files have very clean tags, it's hardly impressive."

For comparison, iTunes Match launched not long after that. More than half of my library was matched without uploading, and by that point it had grown to 21679 songs. Honestly, since iTunes Match I haven't even considered a cloud music service like Spotify or Rdio again. The way I see it, why pay to access someone else's crappy library missing tons of content when you can just upload your library and cut out the middleman?
It would be more excellent if it were factually correct. Becoats (note spelling, and no relation) v. The State is a Georgia State Supreme Court decision about search dogs that has nothing to do with the Roberts court, which has been mixed to liberal on 4th Amendment issues.

The rule about locking your glove compartment isn't because the police have less rights to search a locked glove box than an unlocked one; it's because police lie that a search was consensual when challenged, and a broken lock makes that awkward.
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Also, filtering options would be great, for example only viewing tweets from independents, or only ones that mention Romney.
This is clever and I find it highly entertaining to read all of the trolls and flamebait. The white flash when the graphs update is extremely irritating to me.
It's a fun visualization to have up as a dashboard, I think I'll keep it running during the debates.

I love the design; it's very easy to read, and the simplicity and color make it easy to digest information at a glance.

My constructive criticism:

For the word frequency charts at the top of the screen, I'd weed out common words, and/or try to combine words into meaningful phrases. http://www.wordle.net/ does a good job with this (weeding out common words, not discerning phrases).

The number one thing I think people would be interested in would be some kind of sentiment analysis. Perhaps a knowledgable HN'er could suggest a service you could use for this?

From a UX perspective, I'd like the ability to pause and rewind the twitter streams, or filter them for specific words, phrases, geographic locations, or demographics.

One final nitpick, I would suggest using image meta-tags for sharing on Facebook. I posted the live.votizen.com page to my timeline, and there was no image to accompany the link.
Here are the meta-tags you can use for richer sharing: http://davidwalsh.name/facebook-meta-tags

But yes, overall, I love this.
In current form no (Looking at demo and quick snap shot of whats in there) but might happen in future.
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Starts the same day as Startup School YC, does anyone want to do a late entry after the event and hack from the end of SSYC to Sunday 3PM (deadline for hackathon)? I won the last NFC hackathon hosted by the same organizer (Yuval), but different venue and agency. Probably the best organized hackathon I've attended.
Sounds like an analogy to the iPhone vs Android debate.
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I don't argue that TeX is good for typesetting thesis. I doubt that sphinx, even with some plug-ins is good for that. Also don't forget that reStructuredText has its own problems (not found in HTML and LaTeX). Can I have some bold italic or italic monospaced phrase example in reStructuredText please? No, really?
Great app! Spread the word about the kickstarter campaign so they can release it.

Neri
And to run doppio.js in that, for a sandbox-in-a-sandbox, ... ad infinitum?
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Fellow Votizen dev.

I agree about the white flash. We decided to give nvd3 a try for charts, and it does that as part of its default animation. We'll probably disable animations or figure out some way to keep redraws from flashing like that.
Interesting. I'm particularly interested in how you got this matched up against voter lists. Some states are quite a PIA to collect.
There's some great articles on the psychology of colour which may help you decide. Here's one: http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/175428

My suggestion:
Productive: Yellow (stimulates energy), Leisure: Turquoise (associated with tropical water, and pairs well with yellow)